Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
The question is not whether a picture is good, in some formal, technical sense, but, does it mean what I need it… — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Initially I borrowed the word “perverse” from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense,… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd… — Eddie Trunk Copy Share Image
I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I want to enjoy the languor of just living, recognizing, acknowledging, taking it in, sort of amplifying it in some way. [Photography]… — Joel Meyerowitz Copy Share Image
“Every time she heard the click of the shutter, followed by that faint rustle, she remembered when she used to catch grasshoppers… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
“In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered,… — Eva Rubinstein Copy Share Image
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
... any dodge, or trick, or conjuration of any kind is open to the photographer's use so that it belongs to his… — Henry Peach Robinson Copy Share Image
For me photography had an immediacy... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived,… — Jerome Liebling Copy Share Image
A photographer's best pictures are from deep inside him, and also some of the worst. Some photographers enjoy distinguished careers without ever… — Burk Uzzle Copy Share Image
“There is a terrible truthfulness about photography. The ordinary academician gets hold of a pretty model, paints her as well as he… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
As my sons went into teenagehood, they started to look like some of the groups of people that I had photographed previously.… — Ari Marcopoulos Copy Share Image
While photography to Cartier-Bresson is constantly an intuitive process, it is never purely instinctive. It is founded on continuous intellection, on ceaseless… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
It began when I was so ill that there was a good chance of dying. I promised myself that if I survived… — Helmut Newton Copy Share Image
I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it… — Liam Hemsworth Copy Share Image
Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go,… — Terry Richardson Copy Share Image
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo Copy Share Image
To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer… — Katie Lowes Copy Share Image
I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
In black and white there are more colors than color photography, because you are not blocked by any colors so you can… — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
Photographs are like our children. We put the best of ourselves into them - the best of our vision, our minds, our… — Maggie Steber Copy Share Image
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland.… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends.… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
The magazine business is dying. It's a hard time for publishing. It does seem that everyone is much more opinionated now. I… — Barry Blitt Copy Share Image
Theoretical scientists who probe the secrets of the universe and philosophers who seek answers to existence, as well as painters such as… — Wynn Bullock Copy Share Image
Privilege, if you're very strict, is an immoral and unjust thing to have, but if you've got it you didn't choose to… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
When I was working with Robert Frank, he told me that there was absolutely no relationship between cinema and photography. I challenge… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image